Man faces more B&E charges

Drug and burglary charges involving two more pharmacy break-ins were filed Wednesday against a Belleville man after his mother pleaded guilty last month and agreed to testify.

Jamie Lee Lawson, 21, was arraigned in Lenawee County District Court on felony charges stemming from a second break-in at the Schmidt & Sons Pharmacy in Blissfield on Aug. 2 and at the Addison Pharmacy in Addison on July 21. He waived a preliminary examination and was bound over to circuit court.

A hearing in circuit court on charges involving a July 22 break-in and drug theft from the Schmidt & Sons Pharmacy in Blissfield was adjourned Wednesday. Lawson is to appear April 3 for arraignment and a hearing in all three cases.

Lawson, his mother, Tammy Marie Hopkins, 41, of Belleville; and two others were arrested in November in connection with a pharmacy burglary in Monroe. Lawson and Hopkins were arraigned in Lenawee County on Feb. 7 on charges involving the July 22 burglary in Blissfield.

Hopkins pleaded guilty Feb. 27 to a reduced charge of aiding and abetting larceny in a building and admitted driving Lawson and two others to the pharmacy in Blissfield. She admitted receiving some of the pills stolen from the pharmacy that night.

Lawson is now charged with conspiring with Hopkins and Michael Ray Pepper, 31, of Ypsilanti to commit the Addison Pharmacy break-in and the second burglary of the pharmacy in Blissfield.

Charges added Wednesday include two counts each of breaking and entering, possession of burglar tools and conspiracy, one count of larceny in a building and four counts of delivery of a controlled substance.